Package: sudo Version: 1.7.2p7-1 Severity: normal sudo resets the niceness to 0:
fishbowl:~% nice -17 ps -al | grep '[p]s' | awk '{print $8}'
17
fishbowl:~% nice -17 sudo ps -al | grep '[p]s' | awk '{print $8}'
0
fishbowl:~% nice -n 17 sudo ps -al | grep '[p]s' | awk '{print $8}'
0
Worse, if I sudo to !root, the behaviour is as expected:
fishbowl:~% nice -17 sudo -u nobody ps -al | grep '[p]s' | awk '{print $8}'
17
I don't think it should do that.
The reason seems to be pam_limits defaults (which are not documented
in limits.conf(5).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
sudo recommends no packages.
sudo suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/sudoers.d/README [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/sudoers.d/README'
-- no debconf information
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